McGovern v. Michael

These are proceedings to chancerize a replevin bond in an action of debt on such a bond. A justice of the superior court, sitting without a jury, found for the plaintiff in the sum of $3000, the full penal sum of the bond. The defendants’ exceptions to that decision are before us now.

On April 25, 1930, the plaintiff, a deputy sheriff of Providence county, acting under a writ of attachment issued in that county by Harry Jacobs against Peter Michael, attached as the property of the latter a stock of merchandise, consisting of many and varied articles of dry goods, in a store on Balbo avenue in…